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Dulcinea

(7,518 posts) Sun Oct 6, 2024, 12:18 PM Oct 6

Election Day is a month away, and the polls show a breathtakingly close race.

(The Hill) Election Day is a month away, and the polls show a breathtakingly close race.

Vice President Harris has a small lead nationwide. She led former President Trump by 3.4 points in the average maintained by The Hill/Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) as of Friday evening.

But the picture in the battleground states is tighter still.

Of the seven battlegrounds likely to decide the election, Harris leads in four states and Trump in three. But neither candidate is ahead in any of those critical states by more than 2 percentage points. In five of the states, the margin for the leading candidate is less than 1 point.

The campaigns will now be furiously battling it out on the campaign trail and in TV ads to try to drive turnout among their supporters and win over late-deciding voters.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/swing-state-breakdown-where-harris-100000397.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO&ncid=crm_19908-1202929-20241006-0&bt_user_id=ql1UFiORrt%2F0YW93kKEK6EoWH%2BlVokJYsqwfIgzOTCtU7idwBn%2F2qInOXaYAqyGn&bt_ts=1728213870994

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Election Day is a month away, and the polls show a breathtakingly close race. (Original Post) Dulcinea Oct 6 OP

Total madness...if this is actually true... Eliot Rosewater Oct 6 #1

I'll bet "breathtakingly close" results in a lot of clicks. -misanthroptimist Oct 6 #2

Go to another news source, another set of polls and get a different picture. lees1975 Oct 8 #3

Eliot Rosewater

(32,537 posts)

1. Total madness...if this is actually true...

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Sun Oct 6, 2024, 12:25 PM

Oct 6

And if actually true all the more reason to seek and accept Republican endorsements and support.

-misanthroptimist

(1,196 posts)

2. I'll bet "breathtakingly close" results in a lot of clicks.

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Sun Oct 6, 2024, 12:33 PM

Oct 6

Sounds kind of profitable

lees1975

(6,009 posts)

3. Go to another news source, another set of polls and get a different picture.

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Tue Oct 8, 2024, 05:03 PM

Oct 8

Just saw a poll, posted here on DU, showing her up by 3 in Michigan. And one showing her leading in 6 of the 7 battlegrounds. Depends on whose poll you trust, whose margin of error is closest and ultimately, on which media source you think is not messing around with the polling data.

I don't see this as being quite this close.

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